DON'T TAKE YOUR SPOUSE FOR GRANTED

DON'T TAKE YOUR SPOUSE FOR GRANTED

1. Don't take it for granted if you have a husband who wants you sexually often. So many women out there long for their husband to desire them

2. Don't take if for granted if you have a wife who calls you at night to find out where you are and if you are safe. Some wives have gotten to the point they don't care about the husband

3. Don't take it for granted if you have a husband who opens up to you even if he ends up saying things that are difficult. So many wives wish their secretive husband could confide in them

4. Don't take it for granted if your wife put a pause on her personal development in order to raise the children and take care of you then will plug in back to her career later. So many mothers don't dedicate time to nurture their children

5. Don't take it for granted if you have a husband who uses the little money he has to love you and the children and care for you as family. So many wives are struggling alone and are with an irresponsible husband who doesn't care about the family matters

6. Don't take it for granted if you have a wife who is sexually active with you, loves to please you and is engaging in bed. So many husbands feel rejected by their wife

7. Don't take it for granted if you have a husband who lets you know who his friends are including the female friends. So many husbands live a secret life

8. Don't take it for granted if you have a wife who knows when to put the phone away and be present in the home with you and the children. So many wives are consumed by social media and entertainment they neglect the home or mismanage it

9. Don't take it for granted if you have a spouse who prays for you. When you were younger, prayers by your parents and grandparents sustained you and covered you, now it is the prayers of your spouse that does so

10. Don't take it for granted if you have a spouse who is a peace lover and who solves conflicts quickly.

WHAT YOUR WOMAN WANTS FROM YOU AS A MAN.

[29]For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and carefully protects and cherishes it, as Christ does the church. (Ephesians 5:29)

The Bible says you should nourish and cherish your wife. To nourish means to feed and grow something. How do you nourish your woman.

1. Nourish her with the Word and Wisdom: As a man you must be deep in the Word and full of wisdom. Only a foolish man complains about the character flaws in a woman. It is your responsibility to wash with the Word. Teach her to be a good and virtuous wife. Stop grumbling and murmuring. Stop hating. Stop comparing her with other women. If you're not correct as a man, your wife can't be correct too.

2. Support her: Your wife's or a woman's progress ad prospects shouldn't be a challenge to you. The best gift you can give a woman is to unconditionally support her to achieve her dreams and visions. Stop being rivalrous and competitive.

3. Promote her: Many men are potential- hunters not potential-promoters. Promote the skills, ideas and gifts of your woman. Your woman's progress shouldn't be a threat to you. God didn't bring a woman into your life to kill her abilities but to promote them. 

4. Feed her: I still don't understand why a man would eat sumptuous meal in a canteen but hardly gives money to his wife and children. Your prosperity should be evident in your wife. If you're concerned about your wellbeing while neglecting your woman's welfare, you're a task master not a husband. 

5. Satisfy her sexuality: Give her the best sexual experience. Why should you punish a woman by denying her sex? Be skillful and creative about it. Women appreciate and enjoy good, long and thrilling sex. Must she bribe you with food before you make her feel like a woman? Lol.... Stop complaining about her size, shape and stature, at least you used her to such state. 

With love from Papa Zion...

© Impact Breed, 2019

8 WOMEN YOU MUST AVOID AS A STRUGGLING YOUNG SINGLE MAN

1) Avoid a broke woman who depends on you for money and spend it unnecessarily , She's a financial vampire and parasite, she will ruin you and date another man 

2) Avoid an arrogant woman who doesn't takes instructions, corrections and direction from you. But love so much fake life , that always pressure you to buy any latest expensive trending materials , as a STRUGGLING YOUNG SINGLE MAN you can't go far with such woman 

3) Avoid an angry woman who's always quarreling and fighting with you, who disrespect you and give you no peace.

4) Avoid a woman who's surrounded by many men , who she calls her friends or bestie. Those men are your replacement waiting for your relationship to have problems and then they will move in and replace you.

5) Avoid a woman who doesn't want to listen to your simple explanation but always want what she need from you and doesn't care how you will go about risking your life to get it for her

6) Avoid woman, that's without handwork and she's not ready to learn any , the economic is not favorable, you may not have money always as a husband or boyfriend , most men you see out there, their wife is their backbone financially , having a good plan together with your wife is the secret of most men success 

7 ) Avoid high demanding woman , you can never get or achieve ur dreams with such woman ,as a STRUGGLING YOUNG SINGLE MAN  

8) Avoid woman who doesn't appreciate your little efforts to make her okay , such woman doesn't think of the past sacrifices , if she sees any boy that is doing more better than you she will leave you.

Men, always be guilded...

WAIT FOR AND HASTEN THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD" (cf. 2 Pet 1:4)

⏰Tuesday of the Ninth Week of Ordinary Time 2 (04 June 2024)

📖2 Pet 3:12-15a, 17-18; Ps 90:2, 3-4, 10, 14 and 16 (R.v.1); Mark 12:13-17

🎤"WAIT FOR AND HASTEN THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD" (cf. 2 Pet 1:4)

Beloved in Christ, do you remember what we said yesterday concerning the blessings of God? We noted that God's blessings are always available to us. But in order to reap them, we must cooperate with that grace, which has been made available to us by shunning worldly pleasures and corruption and embracing divine nature (cf. 2 Pet 1:4).

For a very long time, we have been praying for God's intervention in the situation of things in our nation and the world at large. A lot of prophecies are being made from time to time with respect to better time in the future. But the question had always been, When is this future? Will it ever come? Most of us are indeed waiting patiently for it, and we pray that it may come in our lifetime.

At some time in their history, the people of Israel were waiting like us. They were waiting for the day of the Lord, which to them means the day the Lord will grant them victory over their enemies. The prophet Amos came and gave a new meaning to that. It really means the day the Lord will come victoriously upon his enemies, including sinners.

As we join numerous of our countrymen in keeping prayerful vigil for a better Nigeria, are we making an effort to see that our moral lives are better than what we condemn in others in society? Or are we like the hypocritical and lukewarm believers who worship both God and mammon, depending on which favours them at any given time?

By the way, when anyone by your side would want to use Mark 12:13-17 to justify allegiance to syncretism or lukewarmness, remind the person that even Caesar belongs to God. Therefore, everything we have must be used to worship God faithfully.

Let us pray: "Lord, teach us your ways and make us walk in your path." Amen.

Have a blessed day ahead. Peace be with you.

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The Numbering of the Ten Commandments

I have received questions on why the numbering of the Ten Commandments in protestant teaching is different from that of the Catholics. 

The second commandment in some Pentecostal and protestant teaching is not the second commandment in the Catholic teaching yet both used the same Exodus 20 as their source. 

Why this difference?

If you are interested in learning the reason, you can continue reading. Though, it is a bit long.

The first thing we should all remember is that the original writing of the books of the bible does not have chapters or verses.

The chapters and verses in the bible were all later additions. The chapters were added in the 13th century by Cardinal Stephen Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The verses were added in the 16th century by Robert Stephanus, a protestant layman.

The second thing to note is that, though it is called the Ten Commandments, it was not numbered from 1 to 10 and given to Moses to deliver.

With the above in mind, if you go back to Exodus 20 and read the Ten Commandments again, you will discover something. You will discover that by merely counting, the number of times you will see the phrase "Thou shall not. . ." Or "You shall not" is ten times. Two other commands did not carry the "thou shall not" phrase. They are: Remember to keep the Sabbath day Holy and Honour your father and mother.

So, in all, you will be getting about 12 commandments. Let me itemize them for you:

1. You shall have no other gods before me.

2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything.

3. You shall neither prostrate yourself before them (graven images) nor worship them.

4. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

5. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

6. Honor your father and your mother.

7. You shall not murder.

8. You shall not commit adultery.

9. You shall not steal.

10. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.

11. You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife.

12. You shall not covet your neighbour’s house or anything that is your neighbour’s.

As far back as the 3rd century, from the record, Origen (a great theologian and exegete of the early Greek Church) was the first to distinguish the Ten Commandments and itemized/numbered them from 1 to 10. When he did this, he did not include the one I listed as number 3 above. Also, he combined numbers 11 and 12 as one commandment. 

This was what he came up with:

1. You shall have no other gods before me.

2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything.

3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

5. Honor your father and your mother.

6. You shall not murder.

7. You shall not commit adultery.

8. You shall not steal.

9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.

10. You shall not covet.

As you already know, this is what the protestants of today and modern-day Pentecostal denominations adopted.

In the 6th century, St Augustine came up with a different numbering. He maintained 11 and 12 as separate commands and combined 1, 2 and 3 as one commandment to have something like this:

1. You shall have no other gods before me.

2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

3. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

4. Honor your father and your mother.

5. You shall not murder.

6. You shall not commit adultery.

7. You shall not steal.

8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.

9. You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife.

10. You shall not covet your neighbour’s house or anything that is your neighbour’s.

As you already know, this is what the Catholics and even Lutherans are still using.

What is the reason behind all these?

Is a long history, but I think to be fair to all, everyone has reasons for the choice of their numbering.

For Catholics, the last two commandments on not to convet your neighbour's wife and not to covet your neighbour's goods are separated because the former is about lust and the need for purity of thought and freedom from concupiscence. The latter talked about inordinate greed, fraudulent acts, and manipulation to gain earthly possessions.

For the Catholic church, these two are different and can't be joined together as one since they express two different things God is against.

Then on the commandment on images. . .The teaching of the Catholic church is that "Thou shall not make for yourself any graven image", is already contained in "Thou shall not have any strange God except me."

Let's look at this:

1. You shall have no other gods before me.

2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything.

3. You shall neither prostrate yourself before them (graven images) nor worship them.

A good summary will come to the conclusion that the three are talking about one thing, which is already contained in number 1 of the command.

But,

If your understanding is that God is explicitly against the use of images, as in LITERALLY, and you feel the number 2 command in some protestant teaching (You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything) must be there to emphasis that fact, then it make mess of the fact that just five chapters after Exodus 20, God commands Moses and the Israelites to build the Ark of the Covenant, moulding two cherubim of gold and instructing them on how to place them, which totally contradict his command on not having images of ANYTHING (Exodus 25:18-19.)

Or even more dramatic is when God instructed Moses to mould a fiery serpent made of bronze and place it on a pole to cure snake bite. (Numbers 21:8-9). 

How can God give a command not to make images of ANYTHING, and go ahead to command that images should be made?

So, the right understanding of that command is not that images are forbidden, but that they should not take the place of God.

#PurestPurity

*LIFE STORY OF THE* *SERVANT OF GOD* *(SAINT IN MAKING)*

*LIFE STORY OF THE* *SERVANT OF GOD* *(SAINT IN MAKING)* 

 *VIVIAN UCHECHI OGU*

 *(1995 - 2009)* 

 *#ARCHBISHOP AUGUSTINE OBIORA AKUBUEZE, THE_ARCHBISHOP_OF_BENIN_CITY* 

 *#FR. STEPHEN DUMBIRI,* *DIRECTOR_OF_THE_VIVIAN_OGU_MOVEMENT.* 

 *#VIVIAN_OGU_MOVEMENT.* 

 *Vivian Uchechi Ogu was a 14-year-old girl* who lived an exemplary holy life through her missionary works and died a heroic death by opting to be killed rather than being sexually defiled.

 *BIOLOGICAL BACKGROUND* 

Vivian was born in Benin City on the 1st of April, 1995 to the catholic family of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ogu of *Enyiogugu of Aboh-Mbaise Local government area of Imo State, Nigeria.* 

She was the second out of four children.

 *CHILDHOOD* 

Vivian attended Air Force Nursery and Primary School where she distinguished herself as the most intelligent pupil in her class.

She was a parishioner of St. Paul Catholic Church Airport Road Benin City., a member of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, the choir mistress of the children's choir, and the president of the Holy Childhood Association in the parish, where she made a remarkable impact both at the parish and Archdiocesan level.

She was always found instructing and guiding other kids on the necessary of maintaining their purity and defending their virginity, even if it meant giving their lives.

 *WORKS* 

 *The Servant of God, Vivian Ogu Engagements in Pastoral activities at the age of Nine.* 

Vivian began to publicly demonstrate her zeal and courage in speaking to other children on the dignity of purity and virginity.

She had a self-determined goal to live an exemplary Christian Life, with which she inspired other young people to greater spirituality and love for humanity.

When the Holy Childhood Association (HCA) wad inaugurated in the parish of St. Paul in 2006, Vivian was unanimously elected as the first president.

As the president of the holy childhood association, at the age of nine years, she mobilized funds to pay the bill of many poor children in the Central hospital, Benin City. She organized several visits to orphanage homes where she touched the lives of so many poor orphans.

The Servant of God Vivian was quite young but very committed both at Church and School.

She joined the Sunday school community and later the choir.

Through her inspiration, the Parish council approved the children's choir which grew from about twenty children to nearly sixty children at the time of her death.

This choir frequently won first place in the various musical competitions organized by the Holy Childhood Association, from 2007 right up to the most recent ones.

She almost always took part in special events organized by the Church, such as the yearly Children's day celebration, the Annual children mission day, the Christmas carol service as well as the end-of-year Thanksgiving.

In addition she took part in almost all the activities in the parish community where the children are given the responsibility of organizing liturgical activities for the day, she will take either  the reading or prayer of the faithful.

As a renowned preacher, she inspired and mentored so many children and even youths, especially in her parish and her School in following the path of holiness and defending the dignity of virginity, following the footsteps of *St. Maria Goretti, her favourite saint,* of who she always teach other children about.

At the age of thirteen, she already embarked on the development of her commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. She had reached the 16th chapter of that Gospel before her death.

Vivian played a prominent role in the yearly Teen Camp meetings which began in 2007 where they encouraged young people's active participation in the Sunday Eucharist and further catechesis on the liturgy.

She was in Senior Secondary II in Greater Tomorrow Secondary School and the assistant prayer leader in her school before her death.

 *DEATH* 

On Sunday, the 15th of November, 2009, after preaching about purity, virginity, and martyrdom to her fellow children in the church in the morning, the opportunity came for her to put into practice what she preached all her life.

While at home that evening, three armed robbers came to rob her family and afterward took her and her elder sister to a nearby bush and attempted to rape them.

She kept telling her sister not to allow them, even if it meant they would be killed.

They were distracted by her insistency and in the process, her sister was able to escape.

Following the struggle with her assailants,

She vehemently refused and opted to be shot instead and indeed she was martyred and her body was found the following day.

 *GOVERNMENT HONOURS* 

Having learned the news of her heroic death, the government of Edo State granted the land where Vivian Ogu was martyred to the Catholic Archdiocese of Benin City.

Two years later, the local government council of Ikpoba Okha officially named the street on which she was killed “Vivian Ogu”.

On the 17th of September 2019, the Edo State government launched the Vivian Ogu Sexual Assault Referral Centre which provides services and support to survivors of sexual assault in Edo State.

 *CATHOLIC HONOURS* 

Since the death of Vivian Ogu, the Catholic Archdiocese of Benin City has consistently celebrated Memorial Day for Vivian Ogu on the 15th of November every year.

The Vivian Ogu Movement was inaugurated in 2014 by the Catholic Archbishop of Benin, Most Rev. Dr. Augustine Obiora Akubeze with the task of:

Promoting the story of her exemplary life and heroic death so that many more may strive towards her heroic virtues and seek her intercession.

Preserving and developing the land where she was killed.

To celebrate the extraordinary missionary month in October 2019, the Holy Father Pope Francis asked for the biography of possible saint figures, canonized or not, to be used as heroic missionary examples for the whole world. Vivian Ogu was one of the twenty-five saint figures selected from the entire countries of the world.

Consequently, on the 26th of October 2019, the entire Catholic Church in Nigeria gathered at Vivian Ogu Animation Centre (VOMAC) for the national celebration of the extraordinary missionary month of October. *The Holy Father Pope Francis was represented by the president of the Pontifical Mission Society, Archbishop Giampietro Dal Toso.*

 *VIVIAN UCHECHI OGU, PARY FOR US*🙏

 *Thanks for reading* 

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 *Let people know about* *Her.* 

 *The young Nigeria Saint of our time.* 

 *God Bless you.* 

 *MAKE US HOLY OH LORD*🙏